During my high school years, I really loved vintage clothes. There was something special about them: they had a story, they had character, and they helped me stand out a little from everyone else. I loved the feeling that I wouldn’t see the same piece on every other person on the street, and that it gave me the sense that “yes, this is iconically me.”
Then came college, when I moved to the big city. Suddenly, everything became much more accessible: shopping malls, fast-fashion stores, one sale after another. Alongside my carefully curated vintage pieces, my closet started filling up with clothes I’d bought on a whim. Mostly patterned T-shirts that might have reflected my current mood, but of course I never really got to wear them, and they just piled up in my closet.
And although that abundance felt good for a while, somewhere along the way my style began to fade, becoming more ordinary. It lost its distinctiveness. The uniqueness I had once loved so much slowly faded into the background.
Meanwhile, I was commuting between two cities, and my clothes were constantly “in the wrong place.” Whenever I needed something, it was usually left behind in the other city. Even though I had plenty of clothes, somehow they didn’t add up to a functional wardrobe. This experience really drove home the point: having a lot of clothes doesn’t necessarily mean you have good style.
Later, when I was living in just one city, many things became simpler. I needed fewer clothes. But that’s when I faced the next challenge: rediscovering my own style, which had changed over time. After all, I had changed too. As time went on, along with new roles and life situations, my style evolved. What used to be “me” didn’t necessarily work the same way anymore.
That’s when I realized that style isn’t really a fixed point that we find once and then it’s set in stone. It’s much more of a creative process. A game, an experiment, a reinterpretation. Sometimes it means revisiting old inspirations, and sometimes it means trying out completely new directions.
And perhaps that is precisely what makes it so exciting: that it never really ends, but rather resembles a circular process more than a one-way journey.
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